Public transport: network-level detail

Rail passenger transport

The longest series in the module: 1980 to 2024. Missing early values are not zeros: SDES only publishes these breakdowns from the late 1990s onwards.

A line apart: train movements

The same table publishes a seventh line in a different unit: train movements, in millions of train-kilometres. It measures supply rather than use, and is therefore never added to the passenger-kilometres above.

Scope and caveats

• Mainland France for urban and rail transport, whole of France for air. The three sheets have their own years and their own units: they do not add up together.
• F3 mixes two units in the same table: the first six rows are in passenger-kilometres, “Total train movements” is in train-kilometres. That row is isolated, and its unit read from its own label; it is never summed with the others.
• In F4.a, “Total France” is not the sum of the mainland and overseas totals: Mainland–Overseas traffic must be counted only once. The build checks that the published total stays below that sum, and fails if the gap disappears.
• Mainland–Overseas traffic is counted in the mainland total AND in the overseas total: these two totals do not form a tree, which is precisely why “Total France” is lower than their sum. Overseas rows are therefore published without a parent rather than forced into a hierarchy that does not exist.
• Some values in the latest year are not measurements: the workbook notes flag an outer Paris-region figure carried over from the previous year and a rest-of-France figure estimated by SDES. The notes are republished as they stand with each sheet.
• Overall modal shares (cars, two-wheelers, collective modes, air) are on the Domestic passenger transport page, which reads sheet F1 of the same chapter.

Workbook notes

• (p): provisional
• (1) Including the RER operated by RATP and the T4 and T11 tram lines operated by SNCF.
• (2) Data including, since 2014, the 8 RATP tram lines (T1, T2, T3a, T3b, T5, T6, T7 and T8).
• (3) Data backcast from 2000 to 2018, following a change in Omnil's calculation method in 2019. The 2024 figure not being available to date (a further change of method being under way), it has been carried over from 2023.
• (4) The 2024 level is estimated by SDES, from the UTPF short-term indicators.
• (5) The data has been revised from 2017 onwards following a change in the SDES calculation method.
• Scope: metropolitan France.
• Sources: SDES, from: Île-de-France Mobilités-Omnil (RATP, SNCF), annual survey on urban public transport (Cerema, CGDD, DGITM, Gart, UTPF), UTPF
• Note: the 2017-2022 high-speed train data has been revised downwards following a correction of the distances.
• Source: SNCF data up to 2009; SDES - regulatory collection from all rail operators since 2010; Île-de-France Mobilités-Omnil
• (1) Including international trains.
• (2) Under contract with the State and not under contract, excluding high-speed trains.
• (3) Under contract with the regional councils (excluding Corsica and Île-de-France).
• (4) Including the RER lines operated by RATP and the T4 line (since November 2006).
• (5) Excluding the RER lines operated by RATP and the T4 line (since November 2006).
• nd = not available
• (1) Series backcast on the DGAC statistics up to 1990.
• (2) European Union of 27 member states (scope as at 31/12/2020). Excluding the United Kingdom since 2020
• (3) The "Total France" figure is not the sum of "Total Métropole" and "Total Outre-mer", because "Métropole - Outre-mer" traffic must be counted only once in the total French traffic.
• Scope: France.
• Source: DGAC

License: Open Licence / Etalab 2.0.

Real data, updated with each annual edition of the Bilan annuel des transports. Chapter F is shared with the transport-voyageurs module (modal split): a single download feeds both.